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Zany, Twisty, Crazy List of Things Writers Obsess Over

I’m feeling listy today. So let me set the scene for you. Earlier I was in my PJs’ lying toward the foot of my bed with my laptop elevated on a makeshift desk listening to Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly. As the music flowed into me, I came up with the following list. It’s just some things I think writers obsess about.

How many words they have in their head

If they will ever run out of words

Wondering if they can read every book in the world

Reading the front and back of the cereal box, milk carton & can of peas

Wondering who wrote the text for the front and back of the cereal box, milk carton & can of peas

Correcting the social media status’ and posts of their friends & strangers

Giving their NBA speech in front of all of their favorite writers

Seeing their book on the NYT Bestsellers List

Where do all the commas go

How the biblical writers survived without laptops and Kindles

What will be the last book they will write

How many ways can they write the word vagina

How many ways can they write the word dick

How many ways can they write the word buttocks

How many ways can they write the word love

How many rappers Shakespeare would have listened to

How they got from point A-Z on any given day of the week when their characters were really the one’s in the driver’s seat

When to stop writing after the period

How to fill the page

When to buy that cabin in the woods

Coming up with the funds to live while writing

Figuring out how to explain what you do to non-writers

Breathing evenly and deeply as to not go off on someone who doesn’t believe in you

Visualizing yourself cursing out every friend who never asks about your WIP – In slow motion so they can feel your pain

If words are so powerful why can’t they bring back our dead

If words are so powerful why can’t they banish bias

If words are so powerful why can’t they cure diseases

Why words are so powerful

Did I leave anything out? No worries. There will be a part 2 coming up soon.

Comments (2 Responses)

“Breathing evenly and deeply as to not go off on someone who doesn’t believe in you”
Haha I get this one for sure

The one about cursing silently those that don’t ask about your WIP, with me it is the opposite, garnering interest and then they ask and I don’t have anything to tell them because I’m stuck, or distracted, or writing poems instead ~